Word: agnosticism
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"I'm an out-and-out atheist, not an agnostic, humanist, or anything else," Mrs. Murray said, "But no one will deny that those who are exempted from paying taxes on church-held properties are causing my taxes to rise. Such tax exemptions constitute direct state aid to and are...
Speaking for the court, Justice William C. Stuart noted that the gentle, ailing, "highly respected" Mr. Bannister "has served on the school board and regularly teaches a Sunday-school class at the Gilbert Congregational Church." By contrast, Justice Stuart pointed to Painter's seven jobs in ten years, asserted...
In the subtle art of establishing the sacred origin of profane events, Rumanian-born Scholar Eliade has no peer. A pipe-smoking polymath who speaks six languages and writes fluently in three, Eliade, 58, is a prolific novelist as well as chairman of Chicago's history of religion department...
University religion courses are designed not to defend one faith but to explain all. "We're not selling it; we're studying it," says Chairman John Hutchison of the Claremont College's religion department. Universities deliberately avoid hiring propagandizers for a faith. "It's completely irrelevant...
Nenni has mellowed markedly. He renounced the Communists in 1957 (after Hungary), joined a Christian Democratic coalition in 1963, last summer-though still an agnostic-even attended an audience with Pope Paul VI. At last it dawned on Social Democrats and Socialists alike that the gap between them had all...